Official 6.2.2 Patch Notes, September 1st Confirmed for 6.2.2

Blizzard has posted the official 6.2.2 Patch Notes as well as confirmation that 6.2.2 is going live on September 1st!

Check out our 6.2.2 Survival Guide for information on all the new content and we're also giving away a on the post!

Prepare for Lift-Off – Patch 6.2.2 Takes Flight September 1

Blizzard

Patch 6.2.2 arrives September 1 and with it, a new way to get into the PvP action will become available with Mercenary Mode. Those who earn the Draenor Pathfinder achievement will be also be able to take flight over the skies of Draenor.Learn how you can earn flying in Wowhead’s video guide to Draenor Pathfinder. Read the complete 6.2.2 patch notes here.

Official 6.2.2 Patch Notes

Note: Italicized parts of the notes have been added by the Wowhead staff to add clarity to Blizzard's patch notes.

Blizzard

Flying on Draenor

Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement, .

PvP Mercenary Mode

Players will be able to act as a mercenary for the opposite faction in PvP whenever your faction is experiencing a long wait time to get into Ashran or unrated Battlegrounds. Agents of the enemy faction will appear in your base in Ashran (Stormshield for the Alliance, Warspear for the Horde) and allow you to enter Ashran or Battlegrounds disguised as an enemy player, and actually fight as the opposite faction.

While competing as a mercenary, players will automatically have their race changed into one appropriate for the opposite faction. Players will still be able to earn all the same rewards as winning or losing as their original faction (with the exception of faction-specific achievements).

Raids and Dungeons

New Timewalking Rewards

Players now receive a when they complete a Timewalking dungeon. These badges can be redeemed at new vendors that appear during a Timewalking bonus event. The new vendors sell new toys (, , ), new mounts ( and ), in addition to gear that scales up to the character's level at the time of purchase.

Timewalking Loot Changes

Timewalking bosses who had unusual drops, such as Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake, now have a chance to drop those items when defeated while Timewalking.

Fixed an issue where players are not added back to the threat list after dropping out of combat and accepting a battle rez.

Fixed an issue where Hellfire Assault: chest could incorrectly appear to be already open.

Fixed an issue where could not be clicked on if there is an , , or near her.

Dungeon Finder Changes

Completing a Random Warlords of Draenor Heroic dungeon after the first one now awards 50 Garrison Resources (up from 0).

PvP

now has a deserter mechanic. Upon entering, players receive a 10-minute buff called . If the player leaves an match before this buff expires, a 15-minute debuff called will be applied that prevents entry into another match.

Quests

Legendary Ring Quest Line

New weekly quests (such as and ) have been added to help players catch-up in earlier stages of the Legendary Ring Quest Line for Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry.

Events and World Environment

Bonus Events

Bonus Events now begin earlier in the week on Wednesday. End date remains the same so there's now more time to complete the bonus event! Check the in-game calendar for new start times of each bonus event.

In-Game World Events

A number of improvements and new additions have been made to the and world events. (Datamined info here, includes , , and .)

Hallow's EndPets: , ,

Toys: ,

Wands: , ,

New holiday quests , , , and reward which can be turned in for Garrison decorations.

Disguises: and

Winter Veil

New pet:

New Toy:

New Presents: , ,

New Mount:

: Create a snowstorm

: The worst snowball

New Weapon Illusion:

New Pug Disguise:

New Gift:

New Consumable: , increases gathering rate

The interior of the Armory at should now be correctly furnished.

Removed a stack of objects floating outside of the Armory at .

Cartographers have been notified and corrected a spelling error on the world map.

Creatures and NPCs

Go beyond the dark portal on a flying mount to find three new rare elite Bleeding Hollow orcs that have a chance of dropping one of three new Crashin' Thrashin' toys ().:

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Behind the doors of the outdoors version of awaits a new rare elite with a special drop for world PvP enthusiasts, the .should now be correctly immune to being trapped by .

Collections

Toy Box

The maximum size of a mount is now capped at 150% of base size for cosmetic effects.

Items

Tooltips for items that have been empowered or created by Baleful tokens now have a Baleful and/or Empowered tag.

Baleful rings, neck trinkets, and cloaks should now always create an item that has Bonus Armor for Tanking loot specializations, and Spirit for Healing loot specializations.

should no longer despawn at the end of a raid encounter without resurrecting a raid or party member.

is now only usable on Draenor.

no longer has a reputation requirement with The August Celestials to learn.

Fixed an issue with 's tooltip.

Garrisons

General

A new events coordinator can now be found in level 3 garrisons. Visit the coordinator during or Feast of Winter Veil to obtain garrison decorations that are usable all year round!: "Dress your garrison's guards in festive costumes."

Комментарии

Комментарий от djleeds

EVERY racial change made was for Horde? Too bad mount collections only count on one side - makes collecting enough more difficult.

Комментарий от wulfie6969

on 2015-08-31T12:46:22-05:00

Can't wait. and I really need that mount!

Комментарий от Ishna

on 2015-08-31T13:04:50-05:00

Dat monk buff :O

Комментарий от Sanally

on 2015-08-31T13:08:03-05:00

The Heart of the aspects is a really cool looking mount and probably the most magnificent and biggest one of all the other mounts in my opinion. Want a link to know how it looks like? Here:

P.S It is an in-game mount from the Shop.

Комментарий от Lyzoldas

on 2015-08-31T13:14:33-05:00

Target marker icons have been disabled in public chat channels.---Aww. I always used one or two when advertising my crafting. I get that it's to stop the trolls that spam a ton of them, but still sucks :(

Комментарий от Zlutch

Комментарий от kurio1990

What happened to that fix in place for monk roll? Never saw it go through and still eagerly awaiting it

Комментарий от IcedAssassin

on 2015-08-31T16:13:50-05:00

When is Blizzard and Activision going to sit down and balance PVP? Id like a seat at that table.

Комментарий от betobtz

on 2015-08-31T16:23:06-05:00

Nice to know all the changes in detail, thanks for the info.

Комментарий от lankybrit

on 2015-08-31T16:30:55-05:00

Flying tomorrow. Can't wait. I have a 92 questing in FFR right now. Will not play her tonight. Will wait until she can fly tomorrow!

Комментарий от Squatine

on 2015-08-31T16:44:26-05:00

Thanks for great guide :)

Комментарий от Sadwarrior

on 2015-08-31T16:53:25-05:00

I'd love that but I still prefer the Mottled Drake .. :3

Комментарий от musicallittle1

on 2015-08-31T16:53:48-05:00

Eeeee so excited, can't wait! I'm still crossing my fingers for the day when they count ALL of our mounts, on both factions.

Комментарий от bowlergirl

on 2015-08-31T17:06:50-05:00

Safari Hat is now a toy...I love this. Now I can delete it and bring it back when I need it and save bag space when I dont need it.

Комментарий от Interest

on 2015-08-31T17:44:05-05:00

Timewalking bosses who had unusual drops, such as Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake, now have a chance to drop those items when defeated while Timewalking.

Hm. I was under the impression this was already the case.

Also those are a lot of nice toys. Fun.

Комментарий от frozwa

on 2015-08-31T18:20:10-05:00

Yes, finaly i can go for my 300 mount collectors achievement <3 After the 250 one there wasnt really any incentive to farm intensive so yeah, im more then happy :D *Read: gonna trow my money at the screen for another year of mount farming*

Стремительная жевра/swift-zhevra <- just because i finaly got it :D Love mounts, got 267 of those damn nice collectibles... Realy hope i win this one *Fingers crossed*

Комментарий от Darkloreyn

on 2015-08-31T18:22:48-05:00

Shame that only horde traits got buffed. That feels unfair for alliance especially cause most of them works very well in pve too. Apart from that thanks for the fly. It was time

Комментарий от Pokyscarykitty05

on 2015-08-31T20:34:54-05:00

is the best-looking heavenly cloud serpent in my opinion!

Комментарий от Roguesaxaphone

on 2015-09-01T00:20:50-05:00

I will always like my mount from Kara. Matches my mog and it also the few undead horse mount with fangs.